Category: Events

• November 1, 2024

  Access, Time, & the Social Determinants of Health

  The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) at the American Association of Geographers is thrilled to invite you to an upcoming online webinar! Join us for an hour of insightful discussion on a health geography topic of immense significance.
• October 31, 2024

  Building Data Equity #APHA2024

  Marynia Kolak, Keon Gilbert, Erica Walker, MSc, ScD, and moderator George Hobor shared insights on building data capacity at this year’s American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, improving data accessibility, and prioritizing community voice and engagement in the data collection process.
• October 21, 2024

  How does location impact access to Opioid Use Disorder treatment?

  Dr. Marynia Kolak, PI of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab, will be presenting at the next Pittsburgh Medicine Health Services Seminar! Don’t miss these geospatial insights—register now to join us on Zoom this Thursday, October 24th at noon EST.
• July 24, 2024

  The Inaugural SDOH & Place Project Symposium

  From June 14th to 15th in Chicago, the SDOH & Place Project Symposium showcased the incredible dedication and innovative approaches of our community in addressing social determinants of health and place-based inequities. Fifteen SDOH & Place Fellows showcased their web mapping applications centered in equity, while community and health leaders joined to share progress in…
• June 24, 2024

  Dr. Morioka at CaGIS+UCGIS

  At the 2024 CaGIS+UCGIS Symposium, Wataru, a postdoctoral researcher in the HeRoP lab, was awarded the ICA Scholarship by the International Cartographic Association (ICA). This scholarship aims to “support early career scholars and professionals in advancing their careers in cartography and GIScience.” Wataru also presented a poster titled “Short-term Course for High School Students to…
• May 2, 2024

  The SDOH & Place Symposium—Call for Applications

  How do you use SDOH data to understand, support, and advance Healthy Neighborhoods? Have you generated any web applications that map out SDOH in communities? Join us in Chicago this June for the first ever SDOH & Place Symposium!
• October 26, 2023

  CFP for AAG 2024: Place & SDOH Symposium

  Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health Symposium CFP for AAG Annual Meeting 2024Honolulu, Hawai’i, April 16 – April 20, 2024 Submission Deadline: November 16, 2023 Sponsoring AAG Specialty Groups: Health & Medical Geography, Community Geographies Collaborative, Geographic Information Science and Systems Description The Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) refer to the wide range of…
• October 25, 2023

  October Speaker Series: Creating OldInsuranceMaps.net

  Creating A Public Space for Georeferencing Historical Sanborn Maps Adam Cox, MS, MLIS. Friday, October 27th @ 12 pm CST sat the 2049 Natural History Building or on Zoom. At 1:00 pm CST, after the talk, we will also be hosting a brown bag networking session until 1:30pm. Adam Cox, MS, MLIS, will present about…
• October 5, 2023

  Communities of Resilience: Urbana Farmers Market Interviews 

  How has Covid-19 affected your community? Even within communities, the question generates a variety of answers. The US Covid Atlas team, in partnership with Truth and Documentary, asked patrons of the Urbana Farmers’ Market various questions about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a community event expanding the Atlas Stories, which connects Covid…
• September 20, 2023

  September Speaker Series: Alavez on Grief & Loss

  Join us this Friday for our first talk of the HEROP Speakers Series, and we’re excited to co-sponsor with the Department of Geography & GIScience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.